Tuesday, June 7, 2011

New Song and Video: The Fever

A new song inspired by watching Twilight Zone at 3am on a work night...
Have you ever had "the Fever"?

Synopsis: Franklin detests gambling... Suddenly Franklin is given a coin by a drunk man at the casino, who makes him use it in a slot machine. Franklin wins! Telling his wife that they should keep the money and not lose it back like the other idiotic people.

As they depart, Franklin believes he hears the slot machine calling his name... He continues to hear this as he tries to sleep... As Franklin imagines his winnings piling up, he decides to try his luck, telling his wife he cannot keep "tainted" money, and that he is going to get rid of it by putting it back in the machine.

Later, Flora goes to the casino and finds him playing the machine obsessively. Addicted, Franklin has lost a great deal of their money. When Flora tries to coax him to stop, Franklin declares that he has lost so much, that he has to try to win some of it back. Franklin becomes enraged when she presses for him to leave, declaring that the machine is "inhuman", that it "teases you, sucks you in." Others observe that he has been playing the machine for hours. Eventually, the slot machine takes his final dollar and breaks down. Franklin begins yelling and attacking the machine to give him back his "last dollar." He is taken out of the casino screaming...

Later in bed, Franklin tells Flora that the machine was about to pay off, but deliberately broke down so that it wouldn't have to. He then hears the machine again calling his name... Franklin sees it coming down the hallway to their room, "chasing" him, but Flora cannot see it and believes that he is going crazy. When the machine continues to follow him, repeating his name over and over, "Franklin, Franklin, Franklin!", he backs up towards the window, his hands over his ears, finally crashing through the glass and falling to his death.

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